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Lawrence jackson

A highly decorative hand-embroidered tapestry, or sampler, on display at Baltimore’s St. James Episcopal Church
Community
Threads of history
Published July 1, 2024
Johns Hopkins' Inheritance Baltimore effort helps return a 19th-century embroidered sampler to a Black Baltimore church in time to celebrate its 200th anniversary
Composite image of four people
History and humanities
Mellon Foundation awards $4 million to Inheritance Baltimore project
Published Jan 14, 2021
The project will pioneer new methods of instruction, research, and archival preservation that bring the history of the Black Baltimoreans to the fore
A singer performs at the inaugural Billie Holiday Jazz Festival
ARTS
Project combines art, history, scholarly research, and community outreach
Published Sept 20, 2019
Lawrence Jackson's Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts aims to document the history of African American life in Baltimore and foster intellectual ties between the university and the community
High school juniors attend luncheon
Higher education
Billie Holiday Project hosts college access luncheon
Published May 28, 2019
Baltimore's highest-achieving high school juniors joined Hopkins students, faculty, and staff for a discussion of pathways to higher education
Lawrence Jackson and Matthew Porterfield
Two from Hopkins earn prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships
Published April 11, 2019
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson, Film and Media Studies lecturer Matt Porterfield among 168 scholars, artists, and writers recognized for achievements and promise
black and white photo shows Chester Himes
Literature
Lawrence Jackson longlisted for PEN America Literary Award
Published Dec 20, 2017
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor recognized for his biography of American author Chester Himes
Chester Himes is featured left, Robert Lowell is shown right
Nonfiction
Faculty authors included on best books list
Published Dec 7, 2017
Lawrence Jackson, Kay Redfield Jamison recognized for their biographies of 20th century writers
Frederick Douglass
History project
Mapping Frederick Douglass
Published Nov 27, 2017
Students in Johns Hopkins graduate seminar research, visit regional sites of significance in young slave's life
Illustration of Chester Himes in grays, blacks, and reds
The lonely crusader
Published Fall 2017
Lawrence Jackson profiles the work of Chester Himes, who all but invented the black crime novel / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Lawrence Jackson
Historian homecoming
Lawrence Jackson named BDP
Published Feb 6, 2017
Historian, author bridges English, History departments and Center for Africana Studies